Change target for symbolic link in windows

Question

How to change the purpose of an existing symbolic link. Any solution will work: console, powershell, etc.

It is important to think about making this change atomically, so the decision to delete the link and then create a new one does not work for me.

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Eugeniu torica Jul 2 '12 at 15:17

3 answers

Joey · Answer 1 · 2012-07-02T15:27:42+0000

This is possible using ZwFsControlFilefunction using the FSCTL_SET_REPARSE_POINTcontrol code . At least this is what I understood from how Far Manager does this through Process Monitor.

Harry Johnston · Answer 2 · 2012-07-03T20:38:50+0000

You can use transactional NTFS. See the following functions:

, MS . , , Windows Server 2012.

LSerni · Answer 3 · 2012-07-02T15:29:54+0000

You can try to create a new symbolic link, and then rename the new link to overwrite the old one.

There are some possibilities here: